An attorney representing former residents of the Marshall Square Retirement Resort, who were displaced after a fire destroyed much of the apartment complex in June, is seeking a court order to prevent the parent company from disposing of residents’ “stolen property.”

The alarm system at Marshall Square Retirement Resort, destroyed in a June blaze that killed one woman and displaced more than 80 other residents, was manually silenced four times before the fire was reported to emergency officials, an attorney representing a former resident said Monday.

Augusta lawyer Sam Nicholson said that an analysis of data from the building’s fire control panel revealed exactly when the alarm was silenced each time and when the sprinklers were turned off.

To say that 2015 has been an eventful year for Gary Jones would be an understatement.

Jones, Grovetown’s mayor-elect, was hired just over a year ago to serve as the city’s chief of public safety. By the end of April, he was out of a job, dismissed after what city officials described as failures to follow city policies and what Jones attributed to conflicts with longtime city staff.

Within months, however, he had rebounded and rode a groundswell of support to defeat incumbent Mayor George James with 68 percent of the vote.